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Religious complexity and moral ambiguity in Flannery O'Connor's fiction

While many works of literature explore religious angles such as good vs. evil, O'Connor plunges deeper into the issue by painting different faces on what we might call good and evil.

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Urbanization and industrial transformation of American cities in the nineteenth century

In the 19th century, the United States experienced an era of speedy urbanization. American cities were subjected to a massive change due to the industrial revolution and the nation's change in status.

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Jung's theory of individuation, the collective unconscious, and archetypes

Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology in the early 20th century, has had a lasting influence on the field. His exploration of the human psyche led him to connect psychology to art, religion, folklore, sociology, and philosophy.

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Understanding diabetes: types, causes, and major complications

Almost one-third of them have never received a diagnosis of the disease. Ninety-five percent of diabetics have type-two diabetes -- a disease caused by obesity (Diabetes: A state-by-State Breakdown, Nicholas Bakalar, October 12, 2009, New York Times).

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Race and the collapse of southern Populism in the 1890s

In the late nineteenth century, the price of cotton increasingly fell in the southern part of America (Shaw par, 2). The excessive railroad freight rates increased the misery of farmers with the farmers (both white and black) desperately seeking relief.

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Microsoft's organizational structure and Windows product launch strategy

Microsoft is a U.S.-based provider of personal and business software solutions, video game consoles and Internet media. The company's core product has long been its Windows operating system, which has seen a number of variants over the years.

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Globalization and states' influence on economic growth

Each developing industrialized nation, if it wishes to become economically viable, has the responsibility to both understand and harness their own strengths while simultaneously realizing that their weaknesses are part of their economic identity.

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County-level voting patterns on same-sex marriage bans

Review, 74(6), 891-915. Retrieved from http://www.asanet.org/im ages/journals/docs/pdf/asr/Dec09ASRFeature.pdf In the article "Voting to ban same-sex marriage: Interests, values, and communities," the authors McVeigh and Diaz (2009) explore voting data against same-sex marriage gathered at the…

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Josephus's credibility as a historian of first-century Jewish affairs

Much of the Jewish history during the 1st century comes from the works of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus. Many scholars extol Josephus for his documentation of these times, since they are the only ones that depict the historical events occurring during this turbulent time.

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How family communication shapes children's social and relational skills

Communication is important because it determines how we form our relationships and how we learn to deal with one another. Communication can happen across the different races, cultures and ethnicities and it also occurs within the two genders. It can be verbal and non-verbal.

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